apoc.search.node
Procedure

This procedure is not considered safe to run from multiple threads. It is therefore not supported by the parallel runtime. For more information, see the Cypher Manual → Parallel runtime.

Details
Syntax	`apoc.search.node(labelPropertyMap, operator, value) :: (node)`
Description	Returns all the distinct `NODE` values found after a parallel search over multiple indexes.
Input arguments	Name	Type	Description
	`labelPropertyMap`	`ANY`	A map that pairs labels with lists of properties. This can also be represented as a JSON string.
	`operator`	`STRING`	The search operator, can be one of: ["exact", "starts with", "ends with", "contains", "<", ">", "=", "<>", "⇐", ">=", "=~"].
	`value`	`STRING`	The search value.
Return arguments	Name	Type	Description
Return arguments	`node`	`NODE`	The found node.

Example

Given this dataset:

CREATE (:Person {name: 'Alice Johnson', born: 1990})
CREATE (:Person {name: 'Bob Smith', born: 1985})
CREATE (:Movie {title: 'Alice in Wonderland', released: 2010, tagline: 'Follow Alice down the rabbit hole'})
CREATE (:Movie {title: 'The Matrix', released: 1999, tagline: 'Welcome to the Real World'})

The following query searches Person.name and Movie.title and Movie.tagline in parallel, returning each matching node exactly once:

CALL
  apoc.search.node(
    {Person: 'name', Movie: ['title', 'tagline']},
    'contains',
    'Alice'
  )
  YIELD node
RETURN labels(node) AS labels, coalesce(node.name, node.title) AS value

Results
labels	value
["Person"]	"Alice Johnson"
["Movie"]	"Alice in Wonderland"

The Movie node matches on both title and tagline, but apoc.search.node recognises it as the same node and only returns it once. Use apoc.search.nodeAll to return a result for every (label, property) match, including duplicates. The labelPropertyMap accepts either a Cypher map or a JSON string; multiple properties for one label are passed as a list.

apoc.search.nodeProcedure

Example

apoc.search.node
Procedure